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As you read about why the Union won the war, make notes to answer the questions.

Chancellorsville 1. What did the Confederacy win at Chancellorsville?

1863
What did it lose?
Won the battle, lost stonewall Jackson

Gettysburg 2. Why is Gettysburg considered a turning point in the war?

It crippled the South so badly that it would never recover
from the loss, shattered Southern morale

Vicksburg and 3. What did the Union accomplish by capturing Vicksburg

Port Hudson and Port Hudson?
The confederacy was cut in two.

Gettysburg 4. What did the Gettysburg Address help Americans to realize?

Address
Abraham Lincoln helped the nation realize that it was a
single nation not just a collection of states

1864 Grant is appointed 5. What was Grant’s overall strategy for defeating Lee’s army?
commander of all What tactics did he use?
Union armies. Strategy: to destroy lee's army in Virginia while Sherman raided

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Georgia. Tactics: attack constantly engage in total war against
civilians as well as the army

Sherman’s march from 6. What was Sherman’s goal in his march to the sea? What tactics
Atlanta to the sea did he use to accomplish that goal?
Goal: to destroy the will of Southerners to fight Tactics: engage
in total war destroy civilian property, live off the land

Lincoln is reelected.

Appomattox 7. What were the North’s terms of surrender? Why were they so
generous to the South?
Term: Lees soldiers paroled and sent home with their personal
possessions horses and food rations, officers permitted to keep
their sidearms. Reasons: Lincoln didn't want a vindictive peace

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Summarizing
Explain the significance of various Civil War battles and events by completing the chart below.

EVENT SIGNIFICANCE

Battle of Chancellorsville

Battle of Gettysburg

Battle of Vicksburg

Gettysburg Address
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Battles of Spotsylvania,
Cold Harbor, and Petersburg

Sherman’s March

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